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Pay school teachers in 10 days or face contempt, Delhi HC tells Delhi government

Delhi High Court bench headed by Chief Justice Rajender Menon on Tuesday (August 28) sent a strong message to the Delhi government over non-payment of salaries to MCD school teachers. The court direct...

Delhi HC dismisses PIL challenging JNU’s Internal Complaints Committee constitution

The Delhi High Court on Monday (August 27) dismissed a PIL challenging the constitution of Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) formed by the Executive Committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU...

Case against “khatna”: SC says religious practice should consider public order and morality

In the case against the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) or "khatna", widely practised within the Dawoodi Bohra community, a sect of Shia Muslims, the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice D...

Muslim man’s conversion to no avail as his “wife” says in court that she was deceived by him

A 33-year-old Muslim man, Mohd Ibrahim Sidhiqui, who had converted to Hinduism and taken the name of Aryan Arya in order to marry his paramour, a 23-year-old Jain girl by the name Anjali Jain, has bee...

Sreesanth scales down claim to play, but case goes back to high court

Banned former India cricketer S Sreesanth on Monday (August 27) scaled down his demand for being allowed to play when he pleaded before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice...

Tribal Movements: Jungle Warfare

Above: Siladon villagers stand with bows and arrows near a large stone slab that enumerates their rights under Schedule 5/Photo: UNI The rape of five women in Khunti district in Jharkhand is part o...

NewIllegal Sex Trade: Medium is the Massage

The Delhi High Court takes notice of a PIL on massage parlours soliciting customers for the flesh trade   ~By Deepankar Malviya Over the past decade, there have been many incidents of illegal f...

Ayush Gram Lease: Nailing the State’s Disinformation

Above: The Bhowali TB Sanatorium may soon be converted into a multi-specialty hospital/Photo: ratansharga.blogspot.com The Uttarakhand High Court has slammed the state government’s bid to hand over...

Armed Forces Special Powers Act: A Suicidal Plea

Above: Activists stage a dharna against AFSPA in Imphal. There have allegedly been 1,528 extra-judicial killings by security forces in Manipur between 2000 and 2012/Photo: UNI A petition by 356 sol...

Extramarital Relationships: A Complicated Affair!

In a debatable judgment, the apex court convicts a man on the grounds that his illicit relations with another woman abetted his wife’s suicide ~By Venkatasubramanian Section 113A of the Indian E...

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